Originally Posted by
Fynn
Not really
It's about how society doesn't always want the truth and you trying to make it fqce it might be not just difficul but even make matters worse. Falling bwck on the power of friejdship is outright punished compsred to dealing with your interjal trout on your own. And then, in the end, not only does the power of friendship not fix everything - sometimes clinging to it hard is what makes everything much worse for everyone around.
P2 says friends are important, sure, and that being your true self is importand, but also acknowledges tge limitations on those things a bit more than P4 does and actyally carries a much more antu-collectivist message than it. If anything, it's the Chaos path.
that's why I say it's A deconstruction. It takes a closer, more groundedlook at some ideas from P4 that are handled in a manner taht is very appealibg, though perhaps with a bit of a disregard of reality